Ask Jesus into Your Heart Nothing matters more than getting the gospel right. We can be confused about many things in the Christian life and still recover from them. But confusion about how somebody can have peace with God is different. The consequences are eternal. So, if we are going to examine the language Christians […]
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Have you ever found yourself nodding in agreement with something said in church without really understanding what the person was talking about? What about repeating something simply because you have heard other Christians say it? Perhaps it was a phrase you began to hear regularly. Week after week, it became more familiar. Then, almost without
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We have all seen the films portraying the Rapture, when in an instant millions of people disappear from the earth in the blink of an eye. The world is brought to a sudden standstill. Families desperately search for loved ones. Governments demand answers. News organisations are consumed with one question: Where did all these people
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The Bible is filled with remarkable patterns. The Passover lamb pointed forward to Christ. The bronze serpent in the wilderness anticipated the saving work of the cross. Jonah’s three days in the fish foreshadowed the death and resurrection of our Lord. These connections are not the result of human imagination. Scripture itself draws our attention
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If we were to stand on a busy high street and ask people where they believe they will go after they die, most who are willing to answer and who believe in an afterlife would probably say that they are confident they are going to heaven. A much smaller number would say that they expect
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Have you ever asked yourself, what is the point of all this? Is there any real meaning beyond getting through the next week?It is a question most people ask at some point in their lives, even if only quietly. Sometimes the question comes in moments of crisis. At other times, it emerges in moments of
